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From: andrew@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Andrew Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Switch-a-Roo FKEY breaks on IIci?
Summary: Lots of stuff breaks
Message-ID: <349@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 19:29:40 GMT
References: <9313@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: andrew@jhereg.UUCP (Andrew Esh)
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc. Mpls, MN
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	I am currently using a IIcx, and have a lot of different INITs
and CDEVs and things that I use.  I backed it all up and moved to a IIci
for a week and a half of compatibility testing.  I spent half a week
finding all the things that did not work, including the application
I am currently developing.  Here is a partial list:

 Pixel Paint
 DA Menuz (Shows the submenus, but selection doesn't have an effect)
 Switch-A-Roo
 The Debugger (Jasik)
 Fresh Start
 My SCSI application. (wipes out during SCSI acces)
 Other color QuickDraw applications (pallette handling is different)
 MultiFinder 6.1b7 (the one you have to have for SADE)
 SADE (see above)
 TMON (yes, the debugger that everyone loves)


	All in all, I'd have to say that my desire to buy a IIci just
ended.  MPW works fine (and it rips), but with nothing but MacsBug to debug
with, it gets unfun to work on.  By the way, MacApp works just fine.
Now I am back on my IIcx, and everything runs again.

	For those of you who don't know, the Mac IIci has a new 512k ROM.
I have not done a thorough review, but I have noticed problems in
the SCSI area, and the Color QuickDraw area.  There are other
undefined problems that cause things like TMON to crash. (TMON kind
of just MELTS)  MultiFinder 6.1b7 doesn't work because the Finder no longer
does the Desktop repainting.  That's MultiFinder's job now.  I heard more
on this somewhere (here maybe?)  There has been enough redesign between
the two that the old ones just don't work anymore.  Sade won't run without
6.1b7, since it needs to go through MultiFinder to watch the application
that is being debugged.  MultiFinder 6.0.4, which is shipped with the
IIci does not support this kind of activity.

	I'll wait for the F-19, due out next Spring.  Same 512k ROM, and
more time will have passed for the software industry to catch up.

					- Andrew

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Andrew C. Esh                         andrew@Minnetech.MN.ORG
Open Systems Architects, Inc.